Margaret Jessee

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Margaret Jessee Warren (born in 1921, died July 27, 2001, age 79) was an American tennis player and a Napa Valley vintner.

In 1938, she won the National 18 and Under doubles title and reached the final in singles, and reached the singles final at Cincinnati, before falling to Virginia Hollinger, 6-2, 6-3. She also won two California State Singles titles and two State doubles titles during her career.

She she graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1943 and married James Cleveland Warren, oldest son of then-California Governor Earl Warren and later Supreme Court justice. In 1989, her children established a tennis scholarship in her name at UC Berkeley.

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  • Obituary [1]
  • Reference: From Club Court to Center Court by Phillip S. Smith (2007 edition, page 282)